usmc0811
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I am about to bottle my pear cider using carbonation drops, my question is that on the package it calls for 1 drop per a 12 oz. bottle. My bottles are 15.2 oz. will one drop be enough?
carbination drop question
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treacheroustexan
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Plenty. I use the carb drops in 12 oz bottles and they really over carb my beer. That should give you the perfect amount of carb.
usmc0811
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thanks guys, big help! this site is great and so is everyone on it.
treacheroustexan
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Depends on the beer. The higher alcohol, the longer it will take to carb. I usually have good carbonated beer within a week and a half or two.
ah ha!!!! so these ones are in the 8.5-10% range. Had PET bottles hard with little movement when squeezed and popped a top on one bottle to find it overflowing (but only lost maybe a tablespoon. Pasteurized and a few days later - no carb in either bottles I have opened. Do you think that that will change over the next weeks? The bottles did have a hiss to them upon opening so there was pressure there.
bucketnative
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If you pasteurized, then you killed the yeast, which is what produces the CO2 that carbonates your cider. Probably won't change.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend pasteurizing in PET bottles. If you add hot water (or tea/coffee) to a soda bottle, it will shrink and deform. I wonder if the pasteurization process caused some deformation (or change in permeability) that resulted in the loss of carbonation during the process?
